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G-8 was a heroic aviator and spy during World War I in pulp fiction. [1] He starred in his own title G-8 and His Battle Aces, published by Popular Publications. All stories were written by Robert J. Hogan, under his own name. The title lasted 110 issues, from October 1933 to June 1944.
Cover of the April 1934 issue, by Frederick Blakeslee [1]. G-8 and His Battle Aces was an American air-war pulp magazine published from 1930 to 1944. It was one of the first four magazines launched by Popular Publications when it began operations in 1930, and first appeared for just over two years under the title Battle Aces.
Robert Jasper Hogan (1897–1963) was an American writer, mainly of pulp fiction and later western fiction. [1] He is notable as the creator of G-8, published by Popular Publications.
In late 1933, Battle Aces was relaunched as a hero pulp titled G-8 and His Battle Aces, with the lead novels written by a single author, Robert J. Hogan. [4] Robert Sidney Bowen, a pulp writer who was selling war fiction prolifically to multiple pulp magazines in the early 1930s, met with Steeger for lunch in 1933. Bowen was finding it tiresome ...
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Henry Steeger, the owner of pulp publisher Popular Publications, launched two hero pulps in 1933 in response: one was G-8 and His Battle Aces, an air-war pulp, and the other was The Spider, about a crime fighter. [3] The Spider was successful, and Steeger decided to add another hero pulp. Steeger's idea, which he had been mulling over for while ...
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In a 1973 interview, Steeger stated that to the best of his knowledge Popular Publications published no magazine in the old pulp size format after 1953. He believed that "the Pocketbooks were probably the main factor that contributed to the ultimate fading of pulps from the publishing field--then television came along and administered the 'coup ...